Weekly TLM arrives in Trenton, Ohio

I always wishfully thought in the back of my mind that Butler-Warren counties needed the traditional mass just as much as Cincinnati or Dayton, given their size and growth relative to the other 17 counties of the Cincinnati archdiocese. Well, add the following to your brick by brick file…

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11 Responses to “Weekly TLM arrives in Trenton, Ohio”

Excellent. The two priests at this parish are very orthodox, and a TLM in Butler County is great news. Previously, I would have to drive to Holy Family in Dayton or Old St Marys in Cincinnati for the TLM, which is about an hour each way. If only it were on Sunday. However, being able to go every week will be a great opportunity for the faithful. I will continue to pray for this parish and its resident priests, who took over a parish that was about to be closed and turned it into a thriving parish filled with good, faithful people. I know where I will be every Saturday morning.

I followed your link to the parish website. What a gift such a parish is to this Archdiocese! Especially: Exposition and MULTIPLE weekly opportunities for confession. Now the EF of the Mass. May such things spread to all parishes!

a Saturday mass? Boy they sure are generous in ‘allowing’ that aren’t they — especially when permission is not even necessary.
I am surprised at people that are so thankful for crumbs from the table when they have a right to the TLM, over and above the pablum they are being force-fed of the Novus Ordo mass.
Wake up people and claim your right as Catholics, before it is too late!

Rod,
This wasn’t a blog posting about the generosity of a “Novus Ordo” leadership giving crumbs to the faithful; it was a posting about a faithful diocesan priest being drawn to, and embracing the traditional mass. What is there to wake up to?

The priests in that parish have a lot to keep them busy on the weekend–and every day in between. The priest who is beginning to offer it had to learn how; that took time and effort and he’s already pretty busy. The other priest is the pastor, and he’s pretty busy. Did you know he’s covering a second parish, where the pastor fell ill?

So both priests have a lot of demands, and simply adding another Sunday Mass–which seems to be your demand–is, yes, a lot to expect.

And an attitude like yours serves only to encourage those priests, who think learning the older form of the Mass, and catering to those who want it, are a waste of time.

I personally know both of the priests at this parish. The pastor is covering two parishes, and the priest offering the TLM is a priest in residence (he has responsibilities elsewhere) who learned the TLM on his own initiative. I believe that even a Saturday TLM is a gift to someone like me, who is so attracted to the older form of the Mass. A TLM every Sunday would be great. We will get there, but it will take time, training, and in some cases attitude changes among some clergy and laity. Don’t disparage a good thing. Now I only have to drive from Hamilton to Trenton for a TLM, instead of to Cincinnati or Dayton. These two men are orthodox and traditional priests who have had to basically train themselves. Let it go. Instead of attacking them, get your rear end to Trenton every Saturday so we can get good numbers, which will help advance the cause for a Sunday TLM.

I am not worthy of the Extraordinary Form. I do not deserve the Extraordinary Form. I cannot command priests to do my will. I am thankful for the crumbs from the Master’s table. I am thankful, because the TLM engages my whole person (mind, body, and soul). I suggest you (Rod) attempt to help before your start lobbing stones at our overworked priests.

Not to entirely side with Rod’s attitude, but I will defend parts of his comment…

The faithful do have a “right” to the Tridentine Mass, this is provided by Pope St. Pius V’s apostolic constitution “Quo Primum”, and has been reiterated recently in Pope Benedict XVI’s motu proprio “Summorum Pontificum”.

That being said, Rod’s criticism should be directed towards those who refuse to offer the Traditional Latin Mass, not towards those who are laboring to offer it for the faithful. God bless these efforts!

Every Traditional Latin Mass offered, in even the smallest parish, and even if privately offered by the priest, is an invigorating zephyr to the apathetic doldrums that has befell the Church. It is apparent that restoration lies with uncompromising, but loving priests who adhere to the traditional precepts of the Faith, and resolutely instruct the faithful in it. The unchanging, 2,000 year old bastion of Faith is what we must adhere to; not in liturgical novelties and human initiatives that avail to nothing. Indeed, the answer is the Traditional Latin Mass, and consequently the restoration of the priesthood.

Rod is correct, we should never compromise; but more so, we should not condemn these noble efforts. The priesthood has been degraded, and humanism has pervaded the Church. So, pray for these brave priests. Pray that the Holy Ghost will stir within them a yearning for the fullness of sacred tradition. God bless them!